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One Learning that Changed My Life

22 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief talk, the speaker defines a truly spiritual person as one who perceives bodies merely as temporary coverings for an eternal soul. He explains that the soul persists beyond death and moves from one body to another, regardless of species or human ethnicity. While biological fathers differ, the spiritual father is the same—God—making every being, human or animal, a child of the same divine source. This perspective establishes an inherent brother‑sister relationship among all beings, transcending race, wealth, education, or species.

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Who is a truly spiritual person? A truly spiritual person is someone who will not see a squirrel as a squirrel. He'll see here's a soul wearing a squirrel's dress, here's a soul wearing a goat's dress, here's a soul wearing a lighter colored human's dress, or here's a soul wearing a darker colored human's dress. A truly spiritual person will recognize that this body is just a covering for what lies inside the spirit soul. The body will soon die, but the soul inside is our real identity which never dies and carries on from this body to the next. And though our physical bodies have different biological fathers, our spirit— for all of us, for you and for me— our spiritual father is the same, who is God. So whether someone is white or black, Indian or American, rich or poor, educated or uneducated, in an animal's body or a human's body, our real father is God, and we are all his children. Doesn't that make us all brothers and sisters?